The Los Alamos National Laboratory located in new Mexico, home of some US research into nuclear weapons, has replaced networking tools from Chinese vendor H3C over security concerns, reported Reuters. Instead, the tools seem to have been replaced solely on the basis of suspicion. If that’s the case, ... Read More »
Kaspersky Lab researchers have recently discovered apps carrying the Carberp-in-the-Mobile (CitMo) component that allows criminals to steal mobile transaction authentication numbers (mTANs) sent by banks. This will assist the Carberp Trojan installed on the users computer’s to empty the victims bank accounts. The CitMo components were boxed ... Read More »
There’s a new Mac Trojan dropper that uses a silent installation process and it also has the ability to establish backdoor access to infected machines. Security researchers at Intego found samples of the OSX/Crisis malware on the Virus Total website, but it has not yet ... Read More »
A backdoor shell can be a PHP, ASP, JSP, etc. piece of code which can be uploaded on a site to gain or retain access and some privileges on a website. Once uploaded, it allows the attacker to execute commands through the shell_exec () function, upload/delete/modify/download files from ... Read More »
The ZTE Score M is an Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) phone available in the United States on MetroPCS, made by Chinese telecom ZTE Corporation. There is a setuid-root application at /system/bin/sync_agent that serves no function besides providing a root shell backdoor on the device. Just give ... Read More »
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